English - Cannes International Film Festival

of information that you might not know, thus making you feel much smarter
and better informed than you really are. It’s how he makes his audience feel.
Producing A Story of Children and Film was also a chance to work with my
wife Mary, who has 30 years’ experience as a producer of iconic TV comedy
(Father Ted, Have I Got News For You etc), and back in the mists of time,
produced a short film, Work Experience, which won an Oscar. We set up BofA
Productions – named after Bridge of Allan, where we lived since moving up
our family to Scotland in 2007.
Producing for Mark, rather like walking through an airport with him, is an
experience of racing to keep up. Intellectually, creatively and practically, he’s
lightning quick. He knows exactly what he wants, and has generally done it
within hours of saying he’s going to. Finding the money comes later. But he’s
also intensely collaborative, as long as you can keep pace.
Our funders at the BFI and Channel 4, Lizzie Francke and Tabitha Jackson,
were remarkably supportive of Mark’s method and vision, and fleet enough of
foot to be there when we needed them. This film simply wouldn’t have
happened without either of them.
CAST
Laura and Ben Moreton, aged 11 and 10, live in Frodsham in Cheshire,
England, and go to school in nearby Helsby. They are Mark Cousins’ niece
and nephew.
The two French children that we see at the end of the film are Ines Lopez
and Salvador Cazals, both aged 11. They live near Saint Remy in Provence.
PRODUCTION STILLS
These can be downloaded here;
(this link is coming soon)
THE TRAILER FOR THE FILM AND THE MAKING OF
These are on our youtube channel, here:
(this link is coming soon)